Lmao, lmfao even.
Rafale is getting hand-held mate.
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Interesting, I guess its a little more effort for EFT as we don’t use any rocket pods of any kind on any version.
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thats the biggest concern here imo
they use something similar on f-16s
Objectively, there isnt much reason for a fast jet to be running small rockets with limited payloads like these in modern times, besides for anti-insurgency work I suppose.
Gone are the days of the CRV-7’s punching through Warsaw pact countries aircraft bunkers 🥲
Yeah, APKWS rockets for counter drone
unguided rockets sure but these are guided and ideal for shooting down cheap garbage like shaheds
Anti-drone drones are even cheaper for shooting down stuff like Shahed and dont requires you to run an expensive asset like an EFT or risk a very expensive pilot to do so. There just isnt much reason to have small caliber rockets, guided or unguided, on modern combat jets for anything but anti-insurgency work.
APKWS is being mounted to trucks as anti-drone technical, not to jets afaik, and even then, its seemingly being replaced by more efficient and cheaper anti-drone drones it seems. It was a stopgap solution before something better and cheaper was developped.
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Still in use (from last month)
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On one hand, thanks for correcting me, on the other, I’m still kinda half right, its being used in an anti-insurgency role where using anti-drone drones isnt feasible :p
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Oh no, it’s been used on jets in combat. But yeah, it is a stopgap solution afaik. I heard there was consideration for an IR guided APKWS, but don’t know if that went anywhere
From Datamine (Dev version: 2.45.1.32);
CAPTOR-M (Eurofighter [DEU], F-2000A, Typhoon F.G.R. Mk. 4)
- MPRF search, MPRF ACM, MPRF track, HPRF track: doppler speed range: -1500 / 1500 → -2500 / 2500 m/s
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Watch it somehow make the radar even worse
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there comes a point where those interceptor drones will no longer suffice. plus, the jets will be up during an attack regardless, so its better to give them some cheap rockets to shoot at shaheds than amraams
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I cant imagine this would do anything? I dont think theres anything but the fastest missiles that could have a doppler shift of over 1500m/s in-game, seeing as thats already a closing speed of over M4.0. Pushing it from 1500m/s to 2500m/s, is going from M4.4 to M7.3 roughly. Unless im misunderstanding something, I kind of feel like this is more of a change in the code just to pretend theyre doing something rather than something that will change something for the better…
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didnt help at all, tested it
it makes the f-14 radar useable in all aspect tho
Haha
I mean, probably not. Its already been stated that the stuff provided by western nations for drones or anti-drone work tends to be way more expensive, and typically inferior to boot. Tossing a guidance kit onto an unguided 70mm rocket to make it a guided 70mm rocket just to fire it from a multimilliom dollar plane to be used against drones is kind of insanity unless you dont have the ability to launch drones where you are.
Objectively speaking, just about any drone that has enough performance to be outside of the scope of purpose built anti-drone drones is likely closer to the cost of an actual AAM anyways, and the APKWS for example (closest analogue to this guidance kit) already costs ~$20k per shot, while most likely having vastly inferior performance (shorter range, lower maneuvrability) to boot.
Im not saying putting the 70mm guided rockets on a jet isnt a worthwhile idea, it does objectively lower munitions cost for high performance jets being used to strike low cost threats, but in just about any case, a dedicate anti-drone drone would likely do the job cheaper and better, with the guided rockets mostly just being a stopgap until widespread adoption (or straight up just a money making scheme).
You can easily mass produce dedicated anti-drone drones using a 3D printer, some off the shelf components, a little explosive, and a cheap microcontroller. Most expensive part is the camera, and even then, you’re likely well below the $20k per guidance kit (not even counting the rocket) from somwthing like an APKWS, and the APKWS ismt giving you any notable performance advantage either. Guided 70mm rockets are just cheaper than dedicated AAM’s for cheap threats.
Buddy, you do realise that this change is not live?
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my game updated so i assumed
Current live is .31, this change comes with .32 so we have to wait but it should result in beeing able to lock missiles coming towards you with Mach Jesus xD